{"podcast":{"title":"M365.FM a Microsoft MVP Podcast by Mirko Peters","slug":"m365-fm-modern-work-security-and-productivity-with-microsoft-365-7311214","podcast_index_feed_id":7311214,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6704921/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.m365.fm","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/dcd2a8cc504197846a71af23bbeb0707.jpg","author":"Mirko Peters - Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, and Copilot for IT Pros","episode_count":989,"summary":"M365.FM is a podcast about Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot, AI, Modern Work, security, governance, Power Platform, Azure, and the technologies shaping the future of work.Hosted by Microsoft MVP Mirko Peters, M365.FM brings together Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft employees, product experts, architects, developers, and community leaders from around the world.Each episode goes beyond announcements and hype to explore what Microsoft technologies mean in practice. From Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI agents to Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, Entra, Purview, security, governance, adoption, and automation, M365.FM focuses on real-world experience, implementation, strategy, and lessons learned.Expect expert interviews, technical deep dives, practical explainers, and conversations with people building, implementing, and shaping the Microsoft ecosystem.If you work with Microsoft 365, Copilot, AI, Modern Work, or the Microsoft Cloud, M365.FM helps you understand what matters, what works, and what is coming next.Hosted by Mirko Peters, Microsoft MVP. 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Organizations purchased licenses, assigned them to users, and budgeted annual IT spending with confidence. AI changes that completely. Modern AI platforms are no longer sold purely as software—they're becoming consumption-based services where autonomous agents perform work on your behalf. Every action, every reasoning cycle, every orchestration task, and every AI workflow consumes credits instead of simply using a fixed license. This episode explains why Copilot Credits fundamentally change enterprise budgeting, why governance becomes more important than licensing, and how organizations must rethink identity, permissions, auditing, FinOps, and AI compliance before autonomous agents become part of everyday business operations. FROM SOFTWARE LICENSES TO AI ECONOMICS Traditional enterprise software was easy to budget. Organizations counted employees, purchased licenses, and forecasted annual costs with relatively little uncertainty. AI introduces a completely different financial model. Instead of paying only for access, organizations increasingly pay for work performed. Every autonomous action performed by an AI agent consumes credits based on: Reasoning complexity Runtime Context size Tool usage Model selection This transforms AI from a predictable software expense into an operational resource similar to cloud compute. The presentation argues that organizations are no longer purchasing software—they're purchasing autonomous labor, and that fundamentally changes IT economics. THE COPILOT CREDIT TRAP The biggest misconception surrounding Copilot Credits is that they simply represent another licensing model. They don't. Credits become the currency of AI work. A lightweight task may consume relatively f…","meta_description":"For decades, enterprise software followed a predictable financial model. 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